Comic News

T-Rex Gets A One Shot

In February, Image Comics gets prehistoric with TYRANNOSUARUS REX, a one shot from Mark Kidwell (’68, Frazetta’s Dark Kingdom) and Jay Fotos (’68, Frazetta’s Death Dealer), with art by Jeff Zornow (Day of the Dead: Desertion, Halloween Comics, Fright Rags) and Fotos. In TYRANNOSAURUS REX, man and dinosaur share the food chain. The delicate balance between the two is destroyed one fateful day, leaving one man to face the eternally deadly Tyrant Lizard. This man will risk it all to defend his village, save his tribe, and protect his lady-love, fur bikini and all!

Jim Shooter Speaks!

Ray Carsillo had the chance to sit down with comics legend Jim Shooter at the 2010 Pittsburgh Comics and Collectibles show. Jim is best known for creating the Superman villain The Parasite and his tenure as Marvel Editor-in-Chief from 1976-1987. Currently, Jim is writing for Dark Horse Comics and is spearheading the new Doctor Solar and Magnus series.

Pilot Season Hits over 100,000 Votes

As announced on GeekWeek Live!, within a week since the polls have opened, Top Cow Productions, Inc. is proud to announce voting for Pilot Season 2010, an annual initiative by the publisher where fans decide a book’s fate, has hit over 100,000 votes.  The winner of Pilot Season 2010 will be announced Wednesday, December 1.

“100,000 votes in just 11 days!” exclaimed Atom! Freeman, Top Cow Director of Sales & Marketing. “If the candidates I voted for in the last general election had worked as hard as our cadre of creators in getting out the vote, I wouldn’t have cried quite so much last Tuesday.”

A New Spider’s in Town!

Anya Corazon (also known as Araña) is about to become the new Spider-girl. This has been a long anticipated action, thought of by fans who first saw Anya in “Amazing Fantasy #1” back in 2004. Finally, Anya will be Spider-girl in her second ongoing series, debuting next Wednesday.

Fans of the original Spider-girl, May “Mayday” Parker are unfortunately going to yet again lose a series with this beloved character since Marvel does not want to have two ongoing series with characters using the same moniker. Resentment and mixed feelings about Anya as Spider-girl have yet to make it clear if the book will sell well or not. Creators promise fans that if they liked the original Spider-girl because it focused on a young girl trying to live up to Spider-girl’s name, they will not be disappointed here.

“S” Is For… Sequel

Superman: Earth One graphic novel written by J. Michael Straczynski and artwork by Shane Davis was the #1 bestseller in New York Times as a graphic novel. So there is no doubt that the creative team that made Superman’s modern origin story well also have a sequel! News was released to day that J. Michael Straczynski is starting to write the next adventure for the Man Of Steel.

While it’s still to early too talk about a, release date, artwork duties, and story DC Comics talked to co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee about Superman: Earth One.

Hack/Slash Goes Monthly

Since coming to Image Comics, Tim Seeley’s HACK/SLASH has been more popular than ever, with sold out printings of the first two HACK/SLASH omnibuses and the success of HACK/SLASH: MY FIRST MANIAC, the four-issue miniseries that inaugurated the series’ move to Image. In February, HACK/SLASH returns with an all-new monthly series written by creator Tim Seeley and drawn by MY FIRST MANIAC artist Dan Leister. Which in my opinion is a very good thing, read the review for the first issue of MY FIRST MANIAC here.

Soldier Zero #2 – 8 Page Preview

Hot off the heels of the first issues success, Boom! has released an eight page preview of the second issue of Soldier Zero #2 out next week. BOOM!’s all-time bestseller STAN LEE’S SOLDIER ZERO #1 leave you wanting more? You’re in luck! Stan Lee and BOOM! Studios bring you a special sneak peek at STAN LEE’S SOLDIER ZERO #2 hitting store shelves next Wednesday, November 17, 2010! Preview today, get your copy next week!

Young Allies : Cancelled

After six issues, Sean McKeever’s (known for his work on Teen Titans) series Young Allies (part of the Heroic Age launch) has been cancelled due to lack of sales, with the solicited issue seven never going to print (although McKeever did mention on his Twitter that it was still only in plotting stage, there is no “lost issue”).

At the back of the last issue, McKeever writes a letter that even though this series has been cancelled, he assures readers that this is not the end of the characters that were a part of Young Allies. His main mention is to next year’s “Arcade” crossover between the worlds of Young Allies, Spider-Girl and Avengers Academy. Starting in November, Spider-Girl (formerly Arana) is going to have her own ongoing series and Nomad is going to continue to be in the back of the Captain America books, with no mention of what will be in the future for character’s Toro, Firestar and Gravity.

Another Crazy Image Teaser

It’s a new week so that must mean a new batch of crazy teasers from Image. Well they haven’t let us down yet! This time we have a Lucha-Libre Sumo-Wrestler from the looks of it… and what’s this? His ankles are impossibly thin! I’m all for the suspension of disbelief, but come on! I still haven’t a clue what this title is about or even called. I’m sure if I scoured another site I could easily find the answer, but where’s the fun in that. I will say that the more I learn about the comic, the more it comes off as trying to be shocking for the shake of being shocking. Getting “hard” over murder, wanting to be in someone’s colon like cancer, the universeaving a dong and boobies. Maybe after reading the book I’ll understand the connection between all of these teasers, but for right now it’s just trying too hard for me to care.

Adventures into Mindless Self Indulgence

Internationally acclaimed electro-punk band Mindless Self Indulgence has toured the world. Now, they share their thrilling true tales about life on the road in ADVENTURES INTO MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE, a one-shot illustrated by Jess Fink and released by Image Comics. To celebrate their first-ever comic book, Mindless Self Indulgence will be in California for a pair of exclusive signings:

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Thursday, November 11, 2010